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Angus & Margaret MacDonald House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark495
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Set on a large corner lot at North Esmond Avenue and Oxford Street, the Angus & Margaret MacDonald House is a prominent, two and one-half storey Queen Anne Revival-style residence. The high hipped roof has open projecting gables. The house is a landmark within the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood of…
- Associated Dates
- 1909
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Oxford Street
- Associated Dates
- 1909
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 12174
- Enactment Date
- 11/12/2006
- Description
- Set on a large corner lot at North Esmond Avenue and Oxford Street, the Angus & Margaret MacDonald House is a prominent, two and one-half storey Queen Anne Revival-style residence. The high hipped roof has open projecting gables. The house is a landmark within the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood of North Burnaby, on a high point of land overlooking Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains.
- Heritage Value
- The MacDonald House is valued as one of Burnaby’s most elaborate examples of the Queen Anne Revival style. The house retains many of its original features, including a prominent front corner turret wrapped by a clamshell verandah. The eclectic and transitional nature of Edwardian-era architecture is demonstrated by the late persistence of these Queen Anne Revival details, combined with the use of newly-popular classical revival elements such as Ionic columns. The interior retains a number of original architectural elements, and the early garage at the rear originally housed Angus MacDonald’s Cadillac, one of the first known automobiles owned by a Burnaby resident. Constructed in 1909, this house was built for Angus MacDonald (1857-1943) and his wife, Margaret Isabella Thompson MacDonald (1862-1939). Angus MacDonald, an electrical contractor, relocated from Nova Scotia to Vancouver in 1891 and served on Vancouver Council from 1904-08. The MacDonald family moved to Burnaby upon his retirement from the B.C. Electric Railway Company, and he then served the North Burnaby Ward as a councillor from 1911-1916 and again in 1921. MacDonald Street in Burnaby was named in his honour. The MacDonald House has additional significance as one of the surviving landmark residences, built between 1909 and 1914, during the first development of Vancouver Heights. In 1909, C.J. Peter and his employer, G.F. and J. Galt Limited, initiated the development of this North Burnaby neighbourhood, promoting it as one of the most picturesque districts in the region and an alternative to the CPR’s prestigious Shaughnessy Heights development in Vancouver. Buyers were obligated to build houses worth $3,500 at a time when the average house price was $1,000. Reputed to be the second house built in the subdivision, this house cost $7,000 to build.
- Defining Elements
- Key elements that define the heritage character of the MacDonald House include its: - prominent corner location in the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood, with views to Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains - residential form, scale and massing as exemplified by its two and one-half storey height, full basement, compound plan, and high hipped roof with gabled projections at the front and side - wood-frame construction including wooden lapped siding, trim and mouldings - rubble-stone granite foundation - Queen Anne Revival details such as scroll-cut modillions, octagonal corner turret, wraparound, clamshell verandah with classical columns, and projecting square and semi-octagonal bays - external red-brick chimney with corbelled top - original windows including double-hung, 1-over-1 wooden sash windows in single and double assembly, and arched-top casement windows in the gable peaks - original interior features such as the main staircase, a panelled dining room with a fireplace and built-in cabinets, a living room with a parquet floor, and a rear den with an oak mantle and tiled hearth - associated early wood-frame garage at the rear of the property - landscape features such as mature coniferous and deciduous trees surrounding the property
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Organization
- British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company
- Function
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Vancouver Heights
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D.011-999-462
- Boundaries
- The MacDonald House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 3814 Oxford Street, Burnaby.
- Area
- 566.71
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Documentation
- City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, Heritage Site Files
- Street Address
- 3814 Oxford Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90961
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.8
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for Guys and Dolls [1970]. Front cover; light blue legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "Burnaby North Senior Secondary School / Presents / Guys & / Dolls" and illustration of a woman and man in fedora hat smoking a cigarette and a set of dice. Interior of program; three pieces of legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; stapled; printed on both sides with black typewritten text. Three pieces of fake paper money; dollar bills; printed in blue/green ink on white paper and illustrated to appear as United States dollar bills.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in the early 1970s. Handmade dollar bills were props in Burnaby North's production of Guys and Dolls. They were drawn by the art students for the musical. Darleane Hewstan was in the concert band, and she remembers the bills been thrown around the stage by the gamblers. One of the student actors in the production, Gerry Martin, played Nathan Detroit, said that the dollar bills were used in the floating crap game.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- Blue
- White
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90962
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.9
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for South Pacific - March 1970. Front cover; light yellow legal size cartridge paper folded in half with graphic black text "BURNABYNORTH / SENIOR / SECONDARY / PRESENTS / SOUTH PACIFIC" within a sunrise illustration that extends to the back of cover. Interior of program contains one page white legal sized cartridge paper and one page blue legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in March 1970.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- Yellow
- White
- Blue
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90963
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.10
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for Fiddler on the Roof - March 14-17 1973. Front cover; light pink legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "BURNABY NORTH SENIOR SECONDARY / presents / Fiddler on the Roof / BOOK BY joseph stein / MUSIC BY jerry bock / LYRICS BY sheldon harnick" within illustration of a bearded man playing a fiddle while standing on the roof of a house and a woman dancing to the left. Interior of program contains three pages of white legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in March 1973.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- Pink
- White
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90964
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.11
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for Mad Woman Chaillot - November 26-28, 1970. Front cover; light yellow legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "MAD WOMAN CHAILLOT" with illustration extending from front to back of a woman holding a walking stick and dressed in a long dress and hat in front of buildings; illustrator's name "DALE CLARK" in bottom right corner; text in bottom left corner of back cover reads "a BURNABY NORTH / PRODUCTION". Interior of program contains two pages of white legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in November 1969.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- Yellow
- White
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90965
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.12
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for Dark of the Moon - November 13-15 1969. Front cover; white legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "Burnaby North Senior Secondary / presents / DARK / OF / THE / MOON" with illustration extending from front to back of a person with long flowing curly hair circling text on front "DARK OF THE MOON" and text on back "Nov. 13, 14, 15"; illustrator's name "HM FREDENER" in bottom right corner. Interior of program contains two pages of white legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in November 1969.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- White
- Black
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90966
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.13
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for the Wizard of Oz - March 5-8, 1969. Front cover; white legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "the / WIZARD / of / OZ" with illustration of a tornado rising above farmland and a house and swirling into a brick road that leads to a city floating in the sky with tall tear drop towers. Interior of program contains two pages of white legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text. "Diane Nosella" written in blue ink in upper right corner of front cover; signatures of students and teachers involved in production appear in blue ink on pages throughout interior of program.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School, Burnaby in March 1969.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- White
- Black
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90968
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.33.15
- Description
- Burnaby North Senior Secondary School theatre program for Pajama Game - [197-]. Front cover; light pink legal size cartridge paper folded in half with black text "BURNABY NORTH SEN. SEC. / presents / PAJAMA / GAME" with illustration from front to back of cover with black and white chess pieces, a woman in polkadot dress is standing on a white chess piece on front, a man wearing striped pajamas and a crown is standing on the top of a black chess piece on the back, illustrator is identified in bottom right corner of front "DALE CLARK". Interior of program contains three pages of white legal sized cartridge paper folded in centre; printed on both sides with black typewritten text.
- Object History
- From Burnaby North Secondary School in the 1970s.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Colour
- Pink
- White
- Measurements
- 21.5 cm high x 7 cm wide
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
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